142226 - utwente.nl - Windows networking not supported

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Dutch, defect, P5)

Description

[Thijs]

Windows networking links (e.g.: \\computername\share) are not supported. "dance"
and my computer are on the same lan so it should work. in ie6 it does anyway.

greets thijs

Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

It works, but there're bugs.
Try file://///dance/dir as initial dir doesn't work (known bug)

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Thijs, where are you putting this Windows Networking path, exactly?

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

oh, and this is file networking

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

dup of bug 120957?

Comment 5

[Thijs]

i think i see the problem now. in the html-source, there's this link:

<a class="hit" href="\\130.89.163.18\FILMS\Friends">blabla</a>

but when i move my mousepointer over the link in mozilla, i see the
following text in the statusbar:

http://dance/\\130.89.163.18\FILMS\Friends ,

which is obviously not the right path. mozilla seems not to "understand"
that this is an ABSOLUTE path, and not relative!
and of course windows networking has nothing to do with the http protocol
either.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Ah, I see.  The problem is the use of invalid "\" characters in a url.  We do
not support that, iirc (except in the URLbar).  Over to darin for confirmation.

Comment 7

[Darin Fisher]

yup, we cannot support that broken URL syntax without breaking other valid URLs.

-> tech evangelism

Comment 8

[Andreas Otte]

confirmed, don't use \ in links, that is just a normal char not a path
delimiter. The correct link should look like: 

<a class="hit" href="file://///130.89.163.18/FILMS/Friends">blabla</a>

However this link may still be blocked if you access it through http because it
would count as a security violation. If you access it over the file protocol it
should work, modulo the problems we have with UNC paths.

Comment 9

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

-> euro w

Comment 10

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 11

[Patrick]

June 2003 : prioritizing Dutch Tech evangs

Comment 12

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc (PTO until April 26)]

links have changed, WFM

Comment 13

[Patrick]

that would be fixed then...

Comment 14

[Patrick]

--> fixing